A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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